Two sentenced in ‘07 murder of victim found in Pike

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Jun 25, 2010 at 5:44 PMJun 25, 2010 at 5:44 PM

Two men will serve life in state prison for the late May 2007 murder of a third whose body was discovered in Pike County.

Joseph Atwell, 35, of Forks Township, and Jesus Rosario-Torres, 48, of Harrisburg, were sentenced this week in Pike County Court - Atwell to life plus 41 to 104 years and Rosario-Torres to life plus 30 to 60 years - for the murder of Norman Domenech, 31, of Bethlehem.

Hunters found Domenech’s body on June 1, 2007, in a wooded area in Porter Township.A jury in May convicted both men of first-degree murder and other charges. Domenech,

Rosario-Torres and others had been selling drugs for Atwell, prosecutors said. Atwell believed Domenech had stolen from him and became even angrier when Domenech gave police Atwell’s address during a traffic stop.

Atwell and Rosario-Torres worked out a plot to kill Domenech. They drove him to a remote area under false pretense, telling him the three of them were going to do a job, lured him into the woods and shot him.

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